[magick-users] Newbie frustration ...

[Kent]

Hi folks --

I'm just getting started with IM using MagickWand for PHP.  I'm very 
frustrated by the lack of decent documentation -- at least, I haven't 
been able to find any so far.  The material at magickwand.org is so 
sparse as to be almost no help.  I actually spent $30 for a printed 
book, supposedly the "definitive" guide; it may be some help later 
on, but for now it's useless.

For now, I'd just like to do some simple things like create a canvas, 
write some text onto it, and save it into a file.  I've got a script 
that reads a file and writes text onto it, based on a couple of 
simple examples I found on-line.  But now I'm trying to create the 
image from scratch, instead of reading from a file; and my scipt is 
dying without any error message.

Are there some documents or code samples available anywhere that will 
teach me this kind of stuff?

Thanks --

   Kent Multer                  |\  /|
   Magic Metal Productions      | \/ |
   http://TheMagicM.com         |    |

  * Web developer/designer
  * Author, The Official Miva Web Scripting Book -- available on-line:
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0966103211/magicmetalproducA